July 2012 Archives

As businesses invest more in analytics technology to extract valuable intelligence from business data, managing and storing that data becomes more challenging.

This graph shows which types of data companies typically retain for the longest. Source files, customer records and organisational records are at the top of the list.

One difficulty is that much valuable company data is stored in spread sheets and documents held on people's personal computers.

Managing this data requires a proper information lifecycle strategy which ranks data by its value to the organisation.

You can find out more here in this report from Cognizant.

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Most IT professionals surveyed by Computer Weekly believe that outsourcing is contributing to a shortage of skilled IT professionals in the UK.

There are good reasons for thinking they are right. The entry level jobs for IT professionals are disappearing as more companies outsource, which means fewer young people are entering the profession. That in turn means more pressure to outsource.

How can the circle be squared ? One solution is to bring in IT professionals  in to organisations at a higher level, though an IT equivalent of an MBA, for example.